Trying to get microphone to work

[torreydale]

You can install audacity via Install/Remove software.  Just search for audacity, mark it for installation and click on apply.

Or if you want to do the above faster, just enter the following code into a terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get install audacity

Audacity is very feature rich.  If you want something more entry level, you should consider audio-recorder as seen here:
http://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/.  It can be installed by putting the following in a terminal one line at a time.

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audio-recorder